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Originally Posted by cel
The Democrats rate those with no earned income as poor, those making minimum wage as middle class and those making more than minimum wage rich. If you listen to what the Democrats have said in the past and what B.O. says today this fits.
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No, it doesn’t. He said families at 150K should not have any increase, but at 250K the increase should start
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Originally Posted by s_wilwerding
He now makes around $300K a year. Obama's solution to all my uncle's hard work - he ought to be taxed more to support the lazy folks that can't get off their rears to find work..
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No, it isn’t to support lazy people, it is to pay the bills.
http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/myths.html
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Originally Posted by Hugh R
Wasn't it senator Dick Gephardt who referred to some of us as "lucky sperm"? Makes me sick.
USMC at 17, went to undergraduate part time at night while working full time, ditto for my MBA. Put myself though with no financial aid (sorry baby, wrong color). Saved, trying to buy my first house 750 sq. ft. Moved up over 30 years of work, and I'm the lucky one? Give me a break.
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Yes, you are. And you are on the far side of the bell curve.
They above examples cite an EE who got a sweet deal and Hugh got an MBA. You guys are not average. The posters on this board are predominantly high earners.
I don’t know how this myth started: that people who don’t make as much as most of us are lazy. They aren’t. Most people in the workforce couldn’t do the things high earners do. They are doing the best they can.